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Intel Developers Demo USB 3.0 Throughput On Linux

Posted by timothy on from the future-sweetness dept.

Sarah Sharp writes "Intel's Open Source Technology Center is working on USB 3.0 support for Linux. USB 3.0 has wire speeds of 5Gbps and promises to be 10 times faster than USB 2.0. A recent video demo shows speeds that are 3.5 times faster than USB 2.0. The USB 3.0 drivers will be submitted to the mainline kernel when the eXtensible host controller interface (xHCI) specification reaches a 1.0 release."

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  1. Re:What's in a name... by John+Allsup · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I guess for hard drives, the question is how close to eSATA it gets.
    Also, does USB3 still have the CPU overhead and latency of earlier USB compared to FW?

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    John_Chalisque
  2. Compared to USB 1... by MonoSynth · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This shows where Linux is nowadays. It took literally years before USB1 was even supported and now Intel uses Linux to prove USB3's performance!